The Effect of Threat on Novelty Evoked Amygdala Responses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Balderston, Nicholas L ^a   Schultz, Doug H ^a   Helmstetter, Fred J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VISUAL CORTEX; ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION;

SERPENTES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84877031808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063220     Document Type: Article

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